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Saint Stephens, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chatom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36569. The Survey maps it on the Saint Stephens quadrangle. 415 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Saint Stephens within Washington County

On record in Saint Stephens

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Stephens fell from 495 to 415 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010495
2020415-80 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Old Washington County Courthouse, County Road 34, Saint Stephens, Washington County, AL
Old Washington County Courthouse, County Road 34, Saint Stephens, Washington County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Saint Stephens between 1994 and 2016, burning about 643 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140826-003
19 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO ROAD 34, AL
29 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140520-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Saint Stephens: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Saint Stephens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Garris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Washington County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wilson0.5 miles12
Leroy4.5 miles8
Bassetts Creek5.4 miles14
Hobson7.0 miles14
Wagarville7.3 miles14
Wagar7.5 miles11
Carson7.6 miles11
Prestwick7.7 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Saint StephensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1290746The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 126211. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.